NY Giants in need of motivation heading into Sunday's game against the lowly Cleveland BrownsThe Giants are not very good at the regular season. They struggle against lesser teams and find many ways to drop winnable games against the Eagles. Eli Manning would be far better off if he could just fast-forward to the playoffs and put on his road wa… |
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Tom Ley, deadspin.com On Monday, we brought you the story of Eagles running back LeSean McCoy's supposed catch phrase. Today, we received an email from Robert Edwards of the Gloucester County Times that adds a bit more credence to the story: More » |
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Jack Dickey, deadspin.com ESPN the Magazine has a fun story out today about Dan Snyder and our old friend Dave McKenna. It presents a slightly friendlier portrait of Snyder than you might find on, say, Deadspin—where we've called Snyder a "prick" and a "churlish l… |
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Trent Williams and a new kind of prideOct 3, 2012
All Trent Williams must do in order to be one of the best left tackles in the NFL is want to. Scouts and personnel people league-wide will tell you that Williams has as much sheer athleticism as anyone playing the position, maybe anyone ever. His raw ab… |
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NFL cleans up during “premiere week”Oct 3, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com With a new season of TV shows debuting last week, the NFL continues to prove that nothing brings an audience together like the ultimate reality show: Live professional football. A pair of NFL games got the highest ratings last week, with Giants-Eagles … |
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Mike Tice on Cutler: “Jay and I are good”Oct 3, 2012
Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Bears offensive coordinator Mike Tice said he had no problems with quarterback Jay Cutler walking away from him during Monday’s win over the Cowboys. Tice seemed no more bothered by Cutler’s continued churlishness than Bears fans who are willing to ov… |
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Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com Earlier on Wednesday, Florio pointed out that things were looking awfully thin at receiver for the Browns. Josh Cribbs, Mohamed Massaquoi and Travis Benjamin all missed Monday’s practice with injuries, leaving the team with three healthy wideouts ahead … |
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Sam Borden, nytimes.com How would fans have reacted if the Giants had run a fake instead of kicking against the Eagles in the final seconds? |
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Vick, Asomugha and McCoy all practice for EaglesOct 3, 2012
Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Eagles came out of Sunday night with a few injury concerns, but they all seem to be well under control. Quarterback Michael Vick, running back LeSean McCoy and cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha all practiced on Wednesday. Vick suffered a knee contusion lat… |
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Steelers getting healthy for EaglesOct 3, 2012
The Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday will be in Pittsburgh to face a Steelers team that's coming off its bye week and, it appears, getting several key players back from injury. Linebacker James Harrison, who has yet to play this year due to a knee injury, … |
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Mjd, yahoo.com Ben Roethlisberger and Michael Vick are two of the most exciting quarterbacks in the National Football League, and they will square off on Sunday as the Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles renew their cross-state rivalry. Had Mike Tomlin gotten … |
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Trent Williams played hurt to prove himselfOct 3, 2012
Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Perhaps there were times a painful bruised knee would have knocked Redskins left tackle out of a game. But he said Wednesday that he had to prove himself after last year’s drug suspension, and that led him to return. “That’s a driving force behind a… |
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Ramses Barden has a concussionOct 3, 2012
Josh Alper, profootballtalk.com The Giants aren’t sure whether they’re going to have wide receiver Hakeem Nicks back in the lineup this week and now there’s a question mark next to the status of one of the guys who has put up good numbers filling in for him the last two weeks. Coa… |
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MVP Watch includes two NFC East QBsOct 3, 2012
Mike Sando's weekly MVP watch is up, and New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning and Washington Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III make appearances in this week's top 10. Manning comes in at No. 8 after being ranked No. 2 last week. Griffin pops in… |
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Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Fumbling on his second professional carry cast David Wilson the trust of his coach, and it’s no accident he’s played only 14 offensive snaps in four games. But he’s starting to show the spark the Giants envisioned as a return man, and that could hel… |
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‘Skins Newbies Make All-NFC East TeamOct 3, 2012
Andrew Walker, redskins.com (AP photo) The correlation between a player’s individual performance and winning is clear, but it was made even more obvious today when ESPN.com NFC East blogger Dan Graziano released his latest All-NFC East team. The Redskins had five players on last w… |
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All-NFC East Team: Week 4 updateOct 3, 2012
Quarterback remains a tough call on this week's edition of the NFC East All-Division Team. I started by eliminating the turnover machines in Dallas and Philadelphia from contention (though their non-turnovers numbers aren't bad, and Michael Vick did jus… |
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Jerry Jones says he trusts Tony Romo to reboundOct 3, 2012
Darin Gantt, profootballtalk.com Joe Theismann might not care for the way Tony Romo is playing now. But the good news for Romo is, the man who signs his checks has his back. Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said despite last week’s five-turnover disaster, he’s confident in his quarterback, … |
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Theismann says Romo “isn’t that good”Oct 3, 2012
Mike Florio, profootballtalk.com We don’t agree with much that Joe Theismann has to say, primarily since after involuntarily listening to him for years and years (and years), we’ve grown numb to pretty much anything he says. But Theismann has caught our attention with a candid take… |
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Breakfast links: Vick improves vs. blitzOct 3, 2012
Ah, Wednesday. When teams get back to practice and we can finally start talking about next week instead of rehashing and overreacting to last week. Even the Cowboys are practicing today before heading off on their bye week. We'll have stuff to discuss, … |
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Absurdly premature 2012 playoff picture: Week 4Oct 3, 2012
Mjd, yahoo.com Top AFC seeds: Houston Texans, Baltimore Ravens Other AFC division champs: Denver Broncos, New England Patriots AFC wild cards: Pittsburgh Steelers, San Diego Chargers Top NFC seeds: Atlanta Falcons, San Francisco 49ers Other NFC division champs: Philad… |
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